Research the answers to these questions and bring to class on Wednesday:
STAR Test Review
US History
1. Students analyze the significant events surrounding the founding of the nation and its attempts to realize the philosophy of government described in the Declaration of Independence.
What was the Enlightenment?
How did "natural rights" influence the Constitution?
What was Reconstruction?
How did Reconstruction affect race relations in the South?
2. Students analyze the role religion played in the founding of America, its lasting moral, social and political impact, and issues regarding religious liberty.
How did religion affect social reform movements (women's suffrage, temperance, etc.)?
What were the First and Second Great Awakenings?
How does the Constitution provide for religious freedom in America?
3. Students analyze the relationship among the rise of industrialization, large-scale rural to urban migration, and massive immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe.
How did industrialization affect lives of workers in cities?
How did industrialization affect the mix of people living in the city vs. the country?
What are trusts and cartels?
What was Social Darwinism?
What were the Populists trying to do?
How about the Progressives?
4. Students trace the rise of the U.S. to its role as a world power in the 20th century.
How did America's role in world politics change after the Spanish-American War?
How did the Ku Klux Klan form, and what were its goals?
What is the American Civil Liberties Union?
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
What were some results of the 18th Amendment (Prohibition)?
What was the importance of the 19th Amendment?
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
How did mass production and new technology affect life in America in the early 1900s?
5. Students analyze the major political, social, economic, technological, and cultural developments of the 1920s.
Why was the Federal Reserve created?
What was the Great Depression?
What were three causes of the Great Depression?
6. Students analyze the different explanations for the Great Depression and how the New Deal fundamentally changed the role of the federal government.
What was the New Deal? Give three examples of New Deal programs.
What is the American Federation of Labor? Why was it created?
What is the United Farm Workers? Why was it created?
7. Students analyze the American participation in World War II.
How was America involved in World War II before Pearl Harbor?
What was the importance of the battle of Normandy?
What was the importance of the battle of Midway?
What were Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms?"
Why did Truman decide to attack Japan with atomic bombs?
What was the Marshall Plan?
8. Students analyze United States foreign policy since World War II.
What is the United Nations? What is its purpose?
What is the IMF? What is its purpose?
What is NATO? What is its purpose?
What was McCarthyism?
What was the Truman Doctrine?
Why was Berlin cut off from Western Europe? How did Western countries respond?
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
What does M.A.D. mean?
Why did America send troops and military aid to South Vietnam during the Vietnam War?
Why did President Nixon resign?
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